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BBC Proms 2013: Prom 51

Overview

BBC Proms

TIPPETT Fanfare No 5 from The Mask of TimeTIPPETT Concerto for Double String OrchestraBRITTEN Les illuminationsELGAR Symphony No 2

Daniel Harding conductorIan Bostridge tenorLondon Symphony Orchestra

Venetian polychoral motets, Northumbrian bagpipe melodies and the blues can be heard in Tippett’s most popular orchestral work, completed, like Britten’s flamboyant sequence of Rimbaud settings, in 1939 and performed tonight by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Fanfare No 5, from Tippett’s vast, humanist oratorio of 1980–82, The Mask of Time, opens a concert that ends with Elgar's elegiac Second Symphony.

Change of repertoirePlease note that Elgar Symphony No 2 has replaced Sibelius Symphony No 2 as originally listed in the 2013 BBC Proms Guide.